²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may ^(A)go in to her.”

Samson Defeats the Philistines

15 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a ^(A)young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

Christ Born of Mary^(A)

¹⁸ Now the ^(B)birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child ^(C)of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

⁴¹ Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I ^(A)served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^(B)you have changed my wages ten times.

²⁰ So Jacob ^(A)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

¹⁸ Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, ^(A)“I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

Cain Murders Abel^(A)

4 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore ^[a]Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.”